Bon Bravour Moves to Denmark

Breeding

KWPN

The KWPN licensed breeding stallion Bon Bravour has moved to Denmark to reboot his career as a breeding stallion.

Bon Bravour is a 17-year old Dutch warmblood licensed stallion Bon Bravour by Painted Black out of Odette (by Chronos x Linards x). He is bred by the late Willy van Beek and owned by IPS Horse Group in partnership with Anky van Grunsven.

Tom Franckx

Bon Bravour first claimed the spotlight in sport as a young horse under Belgian Franckx.

The pair won the 2011 KWPN Stallion Competition Finals in Hertogenbosch and were the second highest scoring Belgian duo ever at the 2011 World Young Horse Championships in Verden in August, where they finished fifth in the 5-year old finals (Stefan van Ingelgem and Saros van het Gestelhof are the best Belgians with a 4th place).

Two weeks later, Bon Bravour became the reserve Pavo Cup champion and six months later he also won the 2012 KWPN Stallion Competition Finals.

After reigning on the national Belgian young horse show circuit Franckx and Bon Bravour qualified again for the 2012 World Young Horse Championships in Verden. However they had to withdraw at the show as the stallion injured himself in the warm up. What was initially described as a minor injury, turned out to be a severe one and the stallion was out for more than a year.

In October 2013 Bon Bravour returned to the public eye in a demo ride at the SBS Stallion Show in Massenhoven, Belgium, under Tom Franckx

Anky van Grunsven

At the end of 2013, owner IPS ended the collaboration with Franckx and Bon Bravour moved to Anky van Grunsven's yard in The Netherlands, where he arrived as the successor for the retired Salinero.

Bon Bravour and Anky van Grunsven, however, never competed together. Aside from some short video clips shared on social media of the horse doing Grand Prix movements, the stallion never returned to the public eye.

Breeding Career

Bon Bravour's successes at the World Young Horse Championships launched his breeding career in The Netherlands as well as in Germany at the start of the 2010s. For a few years he was a very popular breeding stallion. He is Danish, Hanoverian, SBS, and KWPN approved.

In April 2014, IPS announced that Bon Bravour would no longer be standing at stud. The stallion had injured himself and could no longer do the semen collection.

In The Netherlands Bon Bravour sired two licensed sons (Galandro, Iconic B) and in Germany he has five licensed sons of which only two are in studbook one (Barrique, Blackstage, Bob Marley, Bon Scolari, Black Rock). He sired six state premium daughters.

His most successful offspring in sport include Iconic B (Joyce Lenaerts), Lamborghini (Laura Luyten), Atterupgaards Delorean (Selina Solberg), James Bond de Massa (Arnaud Serre),

Denmark

With Van Grunsven fully focussed on coaching her show jumping children Yannick Janssen and Ava Eden and fully retired from competition sport, Bon Bravour has now left her stable and moved to Denmark.

"Bon Bravour has arrived at Katrinelund, ready to serve mares in breeding season 2023," Ib Kirk posted. "Bon Bravour's own achievements speak for themselves and lots of super offsprings support it. Thanks to IPS Horse Group and Anky van Grunsven for the trust and the opportunity. We look forward to the collaboration."